Sir A. E. Pease's arguments. 



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a round of four miles, he led to Smeaton, through Hornby and Appleton ; 

 then back to Hornby, Worset Moor, Piersburgh, Limpton, Craythorn, 

 Middleton, Hilton, Seamer, Newby, Marton, Ormesby, then upon Hamble- 

 ton, through Kirkleatham Park, Upleatham, Skelton and Kilton. Mr. 

 Turner tired three horses, and only three hounds in pursuit, when he 

 thought proper to call them off, it being near five in the evening, and invited 

 the gentlemen present to his house at Kirkleatham, where they were most 

 hospitabl}' entertained. The chase was upwards of fifty miles." 



Kirkleatham Hall: where the great run ended, where "Van Tromp " and 



"The Flying Dutchman" were bred, and where the Cleveland Hounds were 



at one time kennelled. 



In Cleveland and its Hunt, by the present author, Sir A. E. 

 Pease refers to this wonderful run in the Hurvvorth country 

 thus : 



" In The Cleveland Hounds, there is, on page 5, an old ballad describ- 

 ing a run on the ist December, 1775, where 'Old Cassar ' yielded his brush 

 after a run from ' Eyreholm' to Kilton-in-Cleveland. Colonel V. Straubenzie 

 used to claim that he possessed the brush of ' Old Caesar,' and I had some 

 correspondence with him on the subject, but I think the following will 

 show his claim was unfounded. Colonel V. Straubenzie's original claim 

 was set out as follows : — 



